Title: Cape Cod Withdrawal Supporters List: Support for the Feminist Plaintiffs’ Decision to Withdraw from the Cape Cod Nudity Case (1988)

Description: A 1988 petition and supporters list documenting organized support for the feminist plaintiffs who withdrew from the Cape Cod shirtfree-rights case rather than allow the litigation to proceed on terms they believed no longer represented their political purpose. The file identifies 45 feminist, naturist, anti-pornography, body-acceptance, shirtfree-rights, anti-violence, and profeminist supporters, often with brief descriptions of their activism, affiliations, and reasons for supporting the withdrawal. It also preserves an additional statement intended to accompany the petition concerning photography, child exploitation, censorship, and conflict between feminism and organized naturism. A related-resources section connects the document to the plaintiffs’ withdrawal statement, Craft v. Hodel, Massachusetts v. Oakes, and companion records in the Nikki Craft Archival Project. Series: Primary Source Documents.

Priority Keywords / Subject Tags: Nikki Craft, Cape Cod Withdrawal, Cape Cod Plaintiff Support Petition, feminist plaintiffs, supporters list, shirtfree rights, women’s equality, feminist legal history, Craft v. Hodel, Cape Cod National Seashore, naturism, nudism, Naturist Society, NOPE, Naturists and Nudists Opposing Pornographic Exploitation, feminist naturists, body acceptance, anti-pornography activism, anti-violence activism, child exploitation, photography and consent, movement censorship, feminism and naturism, 1988

A part of the Nikki Craft Archival Project in the Internet Archive.

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